In 1971, college basketball was entering a new era where, for the first time, it was a viable television property. Knight opting for something different couldn’t have been more perfectly timed. “This was before the rest of us got to know Bob Knight well enough to think how wildly out of character it was for a man so conservative and stodgy in his basketball styling.” Whether Knight actually got the idea from the Globetrotters is unclear. The Harlem Globetrotters made candy-striped shorts popular decades before Knight brought the pants version to Bloomington. But it should be noted that the pants themselves were not original. The look was already familiar in the Hoosier State, as the Indiana basketball team had already turned striped tube socks into a fashion statement. ![]() ![]() “I just liked them,” Knight told Hammel earlier this week in classic Bob Knight fashion. They were, however, unique in the college basketball world. There was nothing particularly loud about them in comparison to the fashion at the time, which was dominated by geometric-patterned attire most visibly – and famously – seen on glam rock musicians. Knight’s 1971–1972 squad was the first to play in Assembly Hall and the first to rock the candy-striped warm-ups. Not trying to parallel any roles here, now, but asking why seemed sort of like asking God why the sky is blue.” “I just never thought about it, because they were … there. “As well as I know Bob and as many conversations as we’ve had, I’ve never thought to ask him the whys of the striped pants,” Hammel said in an e-mail exchange with Lost Lettermen. Even Bob Hammel, co-author of a new book with Bob Knight called “The Power of Negative Thinking," didn't know how they became an Indiana trademark. It was a pretty steep learning curve, but we got it because like I said, there's nothing that guarantees a squeal out of a crowd more than Channing Tatum tearing away his cop pants.Prior to each game, Indiana players take the court sporting these blasts from the past, but very few people know the origin of the distinctive pants because the Hoosiers have worn them for so long. Of course, that is the moment when the producer and the director walk into the fitting room for a quick check in, like, 'Hey, how's it going?' and I'm standing there in my underwear in front of my staff. "Finally, I figured out the right combination of velcro and snaps and how to grab them and got it. They weren't tearing away," says Peterson, who tested them on himself. "I thought, okay, so you attach a bit of velcro to some pants and yank 'em and that's it. ![]() What took him awhile to figure out: How exactly to make that happen. It's pretty much full-proof if you do it right," he says. ![]() What he learned immediately: "A guy walks out onstage, tears his pants off, it's guaranteed to get a reaction every single time. An Emmy nominee last year for his work on HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Peterson did some quick research for the film by visiting several male revues on both coasts. You've got to have something to take off,'" says Magic Mike costume designer Christopher Peterson. "Someone asked me recently, 'How important are clothes to a movie about stripping?' And all I could say was, 'Without the clothes, you really don't have an act as a stripper.
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